Photo. Date & regiment please.

[duckboy]

This is my partners great granddad, born in 1884.

Can someone please date and name the regiment? His great granddad is on the far right what is the ribbon on his left arm and is he in the same regiment as the others? as he seems to have less buttons.

None of his service records have survived.

Thanks Chriss.

[ainslie]

Probably Territorials/Yeomanry, pre WW1.  Two have the Territorial badge on their right chest, indicating willingness to serve overseas. 
On the right, the difference in buttons may just mean he was improperly dressed and liable to be put on a charge if the sergeant major saw him!  [Button undone or missing]
Spurs support the idea of a mounted unit, as do the riding crops.  That may be the leather flap of the crop which you thought was a ribbon.
Can you scan the photo to separate one of the cap badges or shoulder titles?

A

[scrimnet]

For some reason I cant download the pic at the mo to examine closely...BUT Mounted TA / Yeomanry circa 1913/4...You can make out the "Imperial Service" badge on several of the chaps...

[scrimnet]

He he Ainslie!!

Interestingly the chap on the far left has putties done upwards, not in a mounted fashion...

[duckboy]

Here's a close up. this is the best I can do as I don't have the oraganel.

Thanks everyone. Chriss.

[ainslie]

Duckboy - where was your man living between say 1908 ( when the badge was initiated, and 1914?
Scrimnet -quote: '...not in a mounted fashion'   - same comment as before about the RSM?   Amateurs!
A

[duckboy]

Hi Ainslie.

He was a groom in Dorchester in 1911. Where he was between 1911 and 1914 I don't known but possibly in the Salisbury area and we did wonder if the photo was taken on Salisbury plan ie bullford camp.

Thanks Chriss.

[forester]

It certainly looks like a Territorial shoulder title.

I wonder if they are ASC? (South West Mounted Brigade)

Phil